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Why aren't CVS, who have more downtown SF locations than Walgreens, facing similar pressures?
by illinx 5y ago
Why aren't CVS, who have more downtown SF locations than Walgreens, facing similar pressures?
- refurb 5y agoWhy do you assume they aren’t? Last time I was in a CVS, I had to have someone unlock a display case to buy deodorant.
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- aapl88889 5y agoI encourage you to Google "CVS San Francisco theft" and see how many results you find
- kgin 5y agohttps://www.cnn.com/2021/06/16/us/san-francisco-shoplifting-walgreens/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/16/us/san-francisco-shoplifting-... > Ben Dugan, CVS director of organized retail crime and corporate investigations, also provided internal data at the hearing showing similar issues concentrated in San Francisco. There are 155 CVS stores in the Bay Area, including 12 in San Francisco; yet those 12 stores make up 26% of all shoplifting incidents in the region, CVS said. > He called San Francisco "one of the epicenters of organized retail crime" and said the items are being stolen with the intent of selling them for re-profit.